In search of a common core: A content analysis of interventions to promote forgiveness

Psychotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-177

  Wade, Nathaniel G ^a,c   Worthington Jr , Everett L ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FORGIVENESS; HOSTILITY; IMAGERY; MOTIVATION; OFFENDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 23044498158     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-3204.42.2.160     Document Type: Review

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